Time gave a good write up of CRT and how the president used....or misused it in the debate
"Critical race theory offers a way of seeing the world that helps people recognize the effects of historical racism in modern American life. The intellectual movement behind the idea was started by legal scholars as a way to examine how laws and systems uphold and perpetuate inequality for traditionally marginalized groups."
“Critical race theory ultimately is calling for a society that is egalitarian, a society that is just, and a society that is inclusive, and in order to get there, we have to name the barriers to achieving a society that is inclusive. Our government at the moment is essentially afraid of addressing our history of inequality and if we can’t address it, then we can’t change it.”